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Tuesday, October 4th, 2011
Tish is offering gait therapy sessions and 3d yoga in Earlsfield. How can this help you?
What do you already know about your feet? Perhaps you have bunions or your toes curl to one side, high arches or flat feet. Maybe you know you don’t have the movement in your feet that you once did. Check your shoes. Do they rub on one side? Your feet affect movement through the whole body. Do you have knee pain, hip issues or persistent back problems. This may come down the chain to your feet, or problems in the feet run have run up the chain affecting other areas.
Various external influences may have taken your body off centre, anything from an accident to cold weather. Your body is brilliant and will compensate perfectly, but inevitably with tension. Gait Therapy uses three dimensional dynamic stretching to mobilise joints and soft tissue, and enable the body to find a state of balance – that’s a pain free perfect state.
Gait therapy has many more benefits…think of your body really completely free of tension. You would probably stand tall, walk lightly, run, jump and skip with a glowing look on your face. Your posture would be perfect and body language welcoming. And you would feel improved performance in all movement and exercise. Your mind and thoughts are inextricably linked to your body so bringing a sense of lightness to the body brings happiness to the mind. You literally allow the stress to leave your body and your mind.
3D movement is also simply great exercise. All your joints work in 3D so the exercises mobilize the joints throughout the whole body. Maybe you enjoy lunges or squats. But have you ever made them 3D i.e. lunge and reach forward, or squat and rotate. Your body will have to work harder. Your heart rate will go up. You will massively improve your fitness. Imagine core exercises 3D…not only would your target the stabilising muscles of the body but achieve that girdle of strength in every movement you do, from the moment you walk away. This takes classic core or pilates exercises to another level.
Tish is offering gait therapy in a hall or studio (in Earlsfield or Wimbledon, London) the comfort of your own home, or if the weather is nice, outside. Available times are early morning or during the day, early evening before 6:45pm, Friday evening and weekends. To book please contact Tish on 07887850882 or email Tish at info@anoushkasyoga.com. Prices start from £90 for non yoga students. Discounts are available for those booked on a yoga course.
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Tuesday, September 6th, 2011
Do you feel your body is holding you back? Would you like to move more efficiently? Are you having problems with back pain, foot, knee, hip problems. Tish from Anoushka’s Yoga is training with AiM (Anatomy in Motion) using revolutionary techniques to ease or completely eliminate movement problems quickly and efficiently. The technique is a new form of gait therapy (how you move when you walk) using 3d movement to subconsciously change the way your body moves and break through any physical barriers.
We all have various imbalances in the body. Left to grow, these can cause injury and pain. Through AiM techniques we bring the body back to centre by correcting poor gait habits. You literally walk out of the session with improved movement and improved function across the whole body.
What happens in a session?
Tish will assess how you walk in bare feet and do a series of static and dynamic tests to see the imbalances in the body. This in itself is enlightening as it gives you a much greater awareness of how you move. You may now understand why your shoes have burnt out on one side.
You will then be taken through a series of 3d exercises to correct these imbalances, taking the body back to it’s natural state of fluid, pain free movement. Effectively we correct how you walk. You will walk out of the session, with your body having naturally taken these changes on board.
The session may include some hard work but you will have the knowledge you have improved performance throughout your whole body. It may also include a thai foot massage, assessing movement through the foot.
For more information, please call Tish on 07887850882 or email: info@anoushkasyoga.com.
Tish is working with Anatomy in Motion at Level 3.
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Sunday, September 4th, 2011
So how can yoga help you?
Yoga is a science of life that has been around for thousands of years. Nothing lasts that test of time if there weren’t many benefits to the practice for literally every aspect of your life. Hatha yoga (the physical side of the practice) is a therapeutic science working the body and mind. So maybe you are looking to ease back pain, maybe improve your digestion, find a way through anxiety and stress, or even find a way to make a decision in your life about a relationship or work related issues.
How does it work?
The practice of the physical poses are much more rewarding than just physical exercise. But the practice starts with something you know…movement. The poses are three dimensional, so on a physical level they will take you through the full range of your physical ability and improve on this. Perhaps you sit for most of day at a desk job and find your shoulders are tight or hamstrings scream when you go for a run. Through the poses we take you through a range of poses to literally open up and bring freedom of movement. The many twists we perform help to reduce stiffness and detox the body through squeezing into the organs. This has the added benefit of kicking your digestion into action. And then there is so much more. Through yoga poses we come to understand how we feel from the inside out. Maybe a balance helps you to focus or concentrate, or you find an inversion or forward bend not only improves your posture, but calms you down and reduces anxiety. Through one class you may notice a difference in how you feel or hold yourself. You may discover this gives you a great night’s sleep or helps you relax. And perhaps your partner will notice a difference in how you nice you are to be around after a yoga practice.
To find out more attend a yoga class in Earlsfield. Each class brings something different and with small classes you really get to know how you work and what is best for you.
If you have something specific you wish to go through, book a private class with Tish. She works from improving movement in the foot to using yoga to find stillness and that inner smile.
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Thursday, July 30th, 2009
So, we get a few guys coming to our yoga classes now, some dragged along by girlfriends and terrified that they will be the ‘only guy in the class’, but they soon realise that yoga is not always about lying in Savasana (corpse pose) and relaxing. An article in GQ magazine titled ‘Real men do yoga’ recently reminded us that Genghis Khan’s warriors did 1,000 sun salutations. And, trust me, that is a lot! Most guys are starting to puff out after 5, especially when they include chaturanga (classic push up as in the photo) and updog – all great for the upper body strength. And guys suffer from back pain just as much as us ladies.
 So if Andy Murray is into Bikram yoga to bulk up, perhaps you should consider coming along, before you dismiss it as your girlfriend’s hobby. We don’t do yoga in 105 degrees at Anoushka’s Yoga but you will soon build up plenty of internal heat. From the start, even simple breathing exercises will help improve lung capacity and performance in other sports such as running or football, and then when we come to hamstring stretches, most guys quickly realise how tight they are in that area, and how even a little bit of loosening can really increase mobility.
So come and try it out. If you are scared you are going to be the only guy in the class….well rise up to the challenge and enjoy or check out yoga buddies united on facebook!
Oh, and we did have one guy in the class the other day shout out in ’crow’ - ”I’m doing it”……us ladies all applauded!! (you know who you are!!!!!)
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